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Rahimafrooz, founded in 1954 by Late A. C. Abdur Rahim as a trading company, is one of the largest

business groups in Bangladesh. It consists of nine SBUs and several other affiliations. The

Group's Chairmanis Mr. Afroz Rahim and the Managing Directoris Mr. Feroz Rahim

Rahimafrooz operates in three broad domains: automotive after market, power and energy, and retail

chain. It sells tyres, batteries, lubricants, emergency power products, diesel as well as gas

generators, lighting products, electrical accessories, solar systems, energy solutions usingcompressed natural gas, and power rectifiers. The Group also runs 'Agora' the first retail chain in

Bangladesh.

The Group has strengthened its market leadership at home while reaching out to international

markets. Ranging from automotive after market products, energy and power solutions, to a retail

chain.

Rahimafrooz produces and markets a range of battery products automotive, motorcycle, and

appliance batteries, Industrial (stationary, deep cycle, traction, VRLA) batteries, IPS and UPS

batteries, and rectifiers. Lucas and Spark are the leading names in the local battery market[citation

needed]while Volta, Optus and Delta batteries are fast gaining equity as International brands. The

Groups portfolio includes international tyre brands Dunlop and Kenda, and its own brand RZ Tyre.

Rahimafrooz is the exclusive franchisee of the full range of lubricant brand Castrol in Bangladesh.

Through Rahimafrooz IPS, UPS and Voltage Stabiliser, the Company enjoys clear leadership of the

emergency power products market.[citation needed]

The Company brings to Bangladesh leading gas and

diesel generator brands Pramac as well as Mitsubishi. It also markets home and industrial lighting

products from General Electric USA (GE) and electrical accessories from Hager France.

Rahimafrooz, in 2001, made a breakthrough in the urban lifestyles by launching one of very few retail

chains in the country Agora.[citation needed]

Rahimafroozs Renewable Energy division has been providing Solar solutions. It has supplied over

52,000 solar home systems (SHS) to the rural, off-grid areas of Bangladesh where the national grid

cannot reach. The Company has helped light the darkness by making available the SHS through

micro-credit, whereby a family can pay as low as USD 7.00 per month for lighting up their homes,

workplaces, business, etc. The Company, in recognition of its solar efforts, received the McGraw-Hill

Platt Global Energy Award in 2004 and the Global Ashden Award in 2006.[citation needed]

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also offers equipments for CNG refuelling, conversion, conversion centres, and maintenance.

The Group operates a non-profit organization Rural Services Foundation (RSF) through which the

solar home systems reach the customers in the rural areas of Bangladesh.

Rahimafrooz is also endeavouring into tyre retread, besides manufacturing and marketing emery

cloths and abrasive papers. In a joint venture, the Group has enterprised into the first ever fibre

optical commercial networking backbone in Bangladesh in the form of Metronet Bangladesh Ltd.

(MBL).

One of the SBUs of Rahiamfrooz Group, Rahimafrooz Renewable Energy Ltd. distributes solar home

systems to underdeveloped rural regions of Bangladesh. For that, the company received theAshden

Award for Sustainable Energy[1]in 2006.